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Migration from Micronesian Nations Has Had Significant Impact on Guam, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands United States General Accounting Office GAO Report to Congressional Requesters October 2001 FOREIGN RELATIONS Migration From Micronesian Nations Has Had Significant Impact on Guam, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands a GAO-02-40 Contents Letter 1 Results in Brief 3 Background 5 Thousands of FAS Citizens Have Migrated to U.S. Island Areas Under the Compact for Employment Opportunities but Live in Poverty 10 Compact Migration Has Cost U.S. Island Areas Hundreds of Millions of Dollars, While Population Growth of the FSM and the RMI Has Slowed 16 Use of Options Available to Address Impact Has Not Satisfied U.S. Island Governments 23 Changes in Compact Assistance and Provisions Might Affect Migration Levels and Impact 30 Conclusions 33 Recommendation for Executive Action 34 Agency Comments 34 Appendix I Objectives, Scope, and Methodology 36 Appendix II FAS Migrant Population Data Collection 40 Appendix III Comments From the Department of the Interior 43 Appendix IV Comments From the Department of State 46 Appendix V Comments From the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia 50 Appendix VI Comments From the Government of the Republic of the Marshall Islands 57 Page i GAO-02-40 Micronesian Migration Appendix VII Comments From the Government of Guam 71 Appendix VIII Comments From the Government of Hawaii 79 Appendix IX Comments From the Government of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 100 Appendix X GAO Contacts and Staff Acknowledgments 104 Tables Table 1: FAS Migrants in Guam and Hawaii (1997) and the CNMI (1998) by When Migrated (Before or After Compact Implementation) 11 Table 2: Proportion of FAS Migrants Living Below the Poverty Level in Guam and Hawaii (1997) and the CNMI (1998) 14 Table 3: Compact Impact Estimates for Guam, Hawaii, and the CNMI, 1986-2000 17 Figures Figure 1: Location and Population of the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, as well as the U.S. Areas of Guam, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 6 Figure 2: Year of FAS Migrant Arrival in Guam, Hawaii, and the CNMI, pre-1980-1997/98 13 Page ii GAO-02-40 Micronesian Migration Abbreviations CNMI Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands FAS Freely Associated States FSM Federated States of Micronesia INS Immigration and Naturalization Service OIA Office of Insular Affairs RMI Republic of the Marshall Islands UN TTPI United Nations Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Page iii GAO-02-40 Micronesian Migration United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 October 5, 2001 The Honorable James V. Hansen Chairman Committee on Resources The Honorable Tom Lantos Ranking Minority Member Committee on International Relations The Honorable Jim Leach Chairman, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific Committee on International Relations The Honorable Doug Bereuter House of Representatives The United States is party to international agreements, in the form of Compacts of Free Association, that include provisions granting the citizens of three small Pacific Island nations the right to live and work in the United States. One of these Compacts was enacted in 1986 with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while the second Compact was implemented in 1994 with the Republic of Palau. Compact enabling legislation states that, in approving the Compacts, the Congress did not intend to cause any adverse consequences for U.S. territories, commonwealths, or the state of Hawaii. While many of the provisions of the Compact with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands, including those providing U.S. economic assistance, are due to expire in 2001 and are being renegotiated, the Compact’s migration provisions do not expire.1 However, the governments of the U.S. island areas of Guam (an unincorporated U.S. territory in the western Pacific), Hawaii (a U.S. state), and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (a self-governing commonwealth of the United States), have raised concerns about the adverse financial and public health impact that they attribute to the many citizens from the Compact nations that have availed themselves of 1 Compact provisions related to economic assistance, access to U.S. federal services and programs, and certain of the Compact defense obligations are due to expire in 2001. These provisions can continue from the 2001 expiration date to 2003 as provided in the Compact while negotiations are under way but not completed. Page 1 GAO-02-40 Micronesian Migration Compact migration rights.2 Therefore, the Department of State’s Director of the Office of Compact Negotiations testified in June 2000 that he intends to address migration in the context of the ongoing negotiations.3 (As of September 21, 2001, the Director of the Office of Compact Negotiations resigned. He has not yet been replaced.) You requested that we review the migration provisions of the Compact with the Federated States of Micronesia and the Republic of the Marshall Islands in order to assist the Congress in its review of any migration proposals that may result from current Compact negotiations. In response, we (1) identified migration under the Compact (migrant population size, destinations, and characteristics), (2) assessed the impact of this migration on U.S. island areas and the sending nations,4 (3) determined the use of available options to address impact on U.S. island areas, and (4) explored ways in which future changes in Compact provisions and assistance levels might affect migration levels and impact. Our review includes data on the Republic of Palau as U.S. island area governments have included the cost of Palauan migrants in their financial impact estimates. To meet these objectives, we reviewed the Compacts and laws that affect migration, as well as data on the number, destinations, characteristics, and impact of migrants from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau to U.S. island areas. Although these data were collected using the best approach available, we note that the data on the number of migrants may be an undercount and are now several years old. We interviewed officials from the governments of the United States, the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the Republic of Palau, Guam, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands regarding migration under the Compacts of Free Association and its impact. We also spoke with migrant community representatives in the three U.S. island areas. 2 We use the term “U.S. island areas” to refer collectively to Guam, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. We view this term as a neutral, concise reference to three locations that each have a different political status. 3 Direct economic assistance provided for in the Palau Compact does not expire until 2009, and that Compact’s migration provisions do not have an expiration date. 4 We did not include the continental United States in this report because (1) compensation for migrant impact is not available to U.S. mainland states in the Compact’s enabling legislation and (2) no data regarding the size of the Micronesian migrant population on the U.S. mainland have been available during the course of our work. Page 2 GAO-02-40 Micronesian Migration (Further details regarding our scope and methodology are provided in app. I.) Results in Brief Thousands of citizens from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau have availed themselves of the migration rights provided under the Compacts. Almost 14,000 migrants were living in Guam and Hawaii in 1997 and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 1998, according to Department of the Interior surveys. Guam had the most Compact migrants at 6,550, followed by Hawaii with 5,500 and the Commonwealth with 1,755. There were substantially more migrants living in these U.S. areas who arrived under the Compacts of Free Association than there were those who arrived prior to Compact implementation. For the migrants surveyed, the destination for migrants shifted from the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in the early 1980s to Guam from the mid-1980s to mid-1990s, and to Hawaii in more recent years.5 Compact migrants moved to U.S. island areas primarily for employment and education opportunities and as dependents of employed migrants. The data show that Compact migrants surveyed were working in jobs that required few skills and paid low wages, and most (over 50 percent) were living in poverty in all three U.S. island areas. Finally, most Compact migrants were not highly educated. The governments of Guam, Hawaii, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands have identified significant Compact migration impact. The three U.S. areas have collectively reported at least $371 million in costs to local governments for 1986 through 2000 that are associated with migrants from the Federated States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau, with Guam’s estimate accounting for close to half of the total amount. All three U.S. island areas have shown that costs have been concentrated in the areas of health and education. Further, all three U.S. areas have raised concerns about public health problems associated with Compact migrants. Concerning impact on sending nations, population growth in the Federated States of Micronesia has essentially stopped in recent years, while falling to under 2 percent annually in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, reportedly due to out-migration. Government officials in these Micronesian countries view out-migration as a key safety valve to easing 5 Migration is, reportedly, increasingly targeted at the U.S.
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